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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Ubuntu Saves Costs for French Police

Ars Technica reports that the Gendarmerie have saved up to 50 million Euros in maintenance and licensing costs since introducing open-source solutions and specifically migrating from Windows to Ubuntu. Moving to Vista would have required retraining and little practical advantage, but moving to Ubuntu from XP turned out to be easy. They intend to complete the migration of in total 90,000 workstations by 2015. The Open Source Observatory and Repository has a more detailed article here.

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